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...pure law-and-order. Harry succeeds in tracking down the killer, only to see him slip away under the cloak of snivelling libertarianism. The district attorney, backed by an intellectual judge from Berkeley, informs Harry that the criminal's rights were violated. This inverted bit of deus ex machina gives Scorpio time to terrorize a busload of children and sends Harry off again on the righteous pursuit of his maniac...
...place on a long, hot, August day, the day of Grannie Refro's birthday, and the family reunion. Jack was home from jail and the lovers were reunited. But it reads more like a Walt Disney script than a novel. The superbly animated, soulful characters are little dei ex machina without any sort of reality to descend into...
...seem as unreal as its '20s predecessor, The Sheik.) As for the literary plots that turn on forced marriages or horrific abortions, they will seem as dated as Prohibition stories. Free legal abortions and free birth control will force writers to give up pregnancy as the deus ex machina...
...massuhs between yassuhs, there are also satanic, mush-mouthed cops who are rapidly replacing the Indian as exemplars of tribal villainy. Mandatory violence is provided by scenes of the forcible rape of a black woman, the throat-slitting of a black man, and the lovingly detailed dens ex machina of a cop chewed to death by a threshing machine. Director William Wyler (The Friendly Persuasion), who once knew better, now forces his actors to boom their lines as if they were reading them from the base of a monument. Under his ham hand, each confrontation seems like an incitement...
...source of the gloom was not new. In the past eight years, labor disputes have four times brought the Met to the brink of disaster. In 1961 its opening was ensured at the last moment deus ex machina (when President Kennedy intervened). But this time, New Yorkers were realizing with shock, there might be no opening at all. Worried, tired and gaunt, Met General Manager Rudolf Bing told TIME, "We don't know where to go. It is now a matter of life and death...